A story for bravehearts, rebels, new kids, pioneers and renegades By Henra Mayer and Richard Copland There once was a management fad called Innovation. It was beautiful and popular and had a certain mystique, maybe magic about it. It attributed certain revolutionary businessmen and women with the Midas touch and was the reason some pretty [...]
By Henra Mayer, Innocentrix CEO. While the small-and-medium enterprise (SME) business sector is the fastest growing in South Africa, according SMEToolkit™, 75 % of small businesses fail within the first two years. Bizconnect (2013) states that 96% of these small businesses will fail within 10 years. In order for the economy to grow, South Africa [...]
Eric van Niekerk – Research Lead, Innocentrix When thinking of global innovation powerhouses, typical examples like Google, Apple and IBM come to mind. But how have these organisations climbed so successfully to the top of the innovation food chain? Why is it that they were the ones with the disruptive ideas and the game-changing inventions? [...]
By Rosemarie Diegnan, Wazoku Almost every organisation out there would love to have a leader who knows how to make a company more innovative; but they can be hard to come by. However, you may already have managers in your organisation with the potential to do this. They simply need some guidance as to how [...]
By Eric van Niekerk, Research Lead, Innocentrix “Why fix what is not broken? We are focused in accordance with our strategic plan and we know how to do that. We have no need for innovation.” Is this a familiar phrase coming from the boardroom in your organisation? This attitude can place organisations in danger of [...]
By Eric van Niekerk – Research Lead, Innocentrix Innovation has a near infinite scope of possibilities and outcomes, if no direction is given to innovation, there can be little control over the outcome. In order to run a successful innovation drive, innovation needs to be the enabler of the organisation’s strategic goals. That is the [...]
By Eric van Niekerk. Despite innovation’s success in the business realm, with specific innovation strategies rocketing companies like Tesla, Unilever, Netflix and Amazon into the global spotlight, the term is often met with scepticism. With less than 50% of South Africa’s top companies sporting a dedicated innovation department, it seems that local organisation have not [...]
By Eric van Niekerk – Research Lead, Innocentrix The invention and widespread use of the internet as a communication and networking tool has had a serious impact on how we go about our daily lives. The ability to be constantly connected, to have access to vast amounts of knowledge, and to be directly linked to [...]
By Eric van Niekerk, Innocentrix Research Lead Previously we discussed what employee innovation is, and gave some tips on how to successfully implement an employee innovation drive within an organisation. This article will look at how to reward employees for innovative behaviour. Rewarding innovative employees Any organisation aiming to build a culture of innovation will [...]
Eric van Niekerk – Research Lead, Innocentrix In Part 1, we had a look at Employee Innovation – what it is, and why it is beneficial to large organisations. We also touched on some examples from Google and Adobe. As promised, in this article we will discuss how to actually get your employees innovating. Which [...]
